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Ouroboros Media Death Spiral

At left, Gary Clement's National Post cartoon from Friday. At right, a CBC TV crew spotted on Canwest death watch outside the Post's Don Mills HQ the same day.

Torontoist first learned of the mysterious case of the disappearing National Post this weekend, when we woke to find newspaper boxes empty throughout the downtown core. We had just started coming to grips with losing the Post’s Toronto magazine-style insert—a Saturday morning without the paper altogether seemed rather overwhelming. The forlorn boxes, like the one above at Bay and Bloor, bore only a sticker, notifying readers that those locations would no longer be serviced.

A characteristic of spending any good length of time on the internet is desensitization—one's tolerance levels for graphic horror are escalated with repeated exposure to lemon parties, tubgirls, a certain .cx domain, and the indelicate contents of 1 cup.

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